Jonathan Freedland, The Guardianho can resist the 241st season of “America”? The dialogue crackles, with new, if outlandish, characters popping in to keep things fizzing. The latest is the president’s communications director Anthony “the Mooch” Scaramucci, who called a reporter on Wednesday to tell him that one senior White House colleague, the chief of staff, was a “fucking paranoid schizophrenic”, while contrasting himself with another by declaring: “I’m not Steve…

Herbert London, The HillIn his July 6 speech in Warsaw, President Trump pledged America to the “defense of civilization itself.” Here in simple terms is the emergence of a Trump doctrine: “The bonds of culture, faith and tradition that make us who we are.” By referring to the spiritual foundations of Western civilization, the president echoes our collective civilized humanity: The laws and culture that undergird western civilization….

Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCPHow can the Republican Party sell itself to voters with an agenda in flux, a White House that is often characterized by chaos, and a president who is broadly unpopular and unpredictable?It depends on which Republican you ask.Sen. Jeff Flake, one of the most vulnerable Republicans up for re-election next year, would argue that Donald Trump is more albatross than asset, and that the party will ultimately pay…

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John Stossel, FOX BusinessDid you see the $2 million dollar bathroom? That’s what New York City government spent to build a “comfort station” in a park. I went to look at it. There were no gold-plated fixtures. It’s just a little building with four toilets and four sinks. I asked park users, “What do you think that new bathroom cost?”…

Douglas MacKinnon, IBDThose in our government’s three-letter and federal agencies who are regularly leaking to the media in an effort to undermine President Trump and cripple his administration are now outraged that the White House is trying to stop their criminal behavior.As a recent headline in the left-of-center P…